Blood Diamonds

In the early 1980s, at the beginning of what would become a 12-year-long civil war, El Salvador's talented football team was one national institution...

Dry Tortugas: Journey aboard the Yankee Freedom, a 100 foot catamaran for the 2.5 hour, 70 mile trip. The area is known for its famous bird and marine...

Between 1947 and 1951, more than 80 000 Greek men, women and children were deported to the isle of Makronissos (Greece) in reeducation camps created t...

Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the...

Shot over one night in the loud, dimly lit printing press, this is the story of the men whose labour lies behind Sierra Leone's oldest daily newspaper...

On April 12th, 1864, at an insignificant little fort, several hundred black Union soldiers fought a hopeless battle against a Confederate general who...

When Lena and Ulli start the engine of their old Land Rover, Lady Terés, they have a plan: to drive from Hamburg to South Africa in six months. What t...

Lebanon today. The traces of the civil war are all too tangible as government corruption becomes unbearable. In a country where conflict and peace are...

In Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, a group of friends lives on the streets. They call themselves the Freetown Streetboys, even though there are...

Known for years as one of the most dangerous maximum-security prisons, Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is the setting for one of the most movin...

Looking at the birth of America's first intelligence units, set in motion in by President Lincoln himself in the early days of the war; exploring a sp...

Unlock the secrets of the most celebrated and prized gem in the world. Learn why the Hope Diamond has inspired superstition and passion since its disc...

This High Definition, PBS miniseries uses letters, diaries, speeches, journalistic accounts, historical text and military records to document and ackn...

Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and noted authors, this two-part documentary series bri...

Libertad, Enriqueta, Maricarmen and Albert evoke the years when their mothers and his aunt stayed in Les Corts jail, times of innocence, hopelessness...